As Temporary List Administrator may I politely remind everyone that the list is not to be used for off-topic discussions such as this. If the people concerned want to carry on this thread would you please pursue this privately and not via the list. Please remember that the list is to be used for the discussion of Sheffield & Rotherham related family & local history and not for any off-topic discussions. Please keep it friendly and keep it on-topic. Best Wishes Jeremy Crawshaw (Temp. List Admin) Crookes SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------- Outgoing Mail protected by: NORTON Internet Security 2004 Updated: 21st May 2005 ---------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: [SHEFF] Re: {not a subscriber} YKS Surnames List - Duplicate/Triplicate Submissions Can I say I find it very irresponsible to post a list of e-mail addresses that will now be searchable by web crawlers visiting the Rootsweb site. We get enough spam without unmunged addresses being published like this, I don't like publishing email addresses, but it is equally irresponsible for people to sign up and enter names in a database and then ignore changes so that other researchers are continuously inconvenienced by bouncing emails. If those e-mail addresses are dead anyway how is it going to hurt if they're harvested? Surely the whole point of them being listed was that any mail sent to them is bouncing? Just a thought!